City: LaFollette<\/p>\n
ROACH, William Littleton, <\/b>farmer; born Knox county, Ky., July 11, 1847; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Isaac <\/b>and Elizabeth (Wheeler) ROACH; <\/b>father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents William<\/b> and Elizabeth (Smidely) ROACH<\/b>; maternal grandparents Benjamin<\/b> and Nancy (McFarland) WHEELER<\/b>; received common school education; served as private in Company \u201cC,\u201d Ninth Tenn. Vol. Cavalry, 1863-1865; he was in all of the battles participated in by his regiment, including the battle of Greeneville, Tenn., where Raider John MORGAN<\/b> lost his life, and Morristown, Tenn.; married twice, first Elizabeth CHAPMAN, <\/b>Nov. 12, 1867; second Alice DYER<\/b>, July 11,1898; Master Mason, Valley Star Lodge, No. 577, \u00a0F. & A. M.; commander of the Daniel Meador Post, No. 19, G. A. R.; justice of the peace from 1888 to 1900; postmaster at Boy, 1880,1885, and Primroy, 1892-1900, establishing both offices; was also interested in mercantile business ten years; census enumerator in his district in 1890; pension attorney, and has practiced before the courts of Campbell county, Tenn., J. P.; member of the Baptist church (Missionary).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
City: LaFollette ROACH, William Littleton, farmer; born Knox county, Ky., July 11, 1847; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Wheeler) ROACH; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents William and Elizabeth (Smidely) ROACH; maternal grandparents Benjamin and Nancy (McFarland) WHEELER; received common school education; served as private in Company \u201cC,\u201d Ninth Tenn. Vol. Cavalry, 1863-1865; he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,87,4419],"tags":[926,4384,1978,2384,2386,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-5617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anderson","7":"category-campbell","8":"category-surname-r","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-chapman","11":"tag-dyer","12":"tag-mcfarland","13":"tag-roach","14":"tag-smidely","15":"tag-wheeler","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15849,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions\/15849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}